How to Secure a Synapse Workspace with Active Directory groups 

Azure Synapse is an enterprise analytics service that accelerates time to insight across data warehouses and big data systems. Azure Synapse brings together the best of SQL technologies used in enterprise data warehousing, Spark technologies used for big data, Pipelines for data integration and ETL/ELT, and deep integration with other Azure services such as Power BI, Cosmos DB, and Azure ML.  

In this blog we will show how we can use Active Directory Groups to secure Synapse

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Office 365 - Security and Governance for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business

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Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Replication without the need of an appliance.

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WSUS/SUP software updates sync failing because of “Upgrades” classification

At a client recently my Configurations Manager software update sync to Microsoft was failing.  This happened after I chose the classification “Upgrades” in the SUP (Software Update Point) properties.  After about 5 minutes the sync failed.  The following is what helped me fix this issue.
 

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A Look at the New OneDrive for Business Admin Center

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SQL Server Backups (High Level Overview)

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Beginning Office 365 Groups Administration

Office 365 Groups are a solution provided by Microsoft that are providing a new way for your team to work and collaborate. As someone who has helped many clients with Office 365, Groups can be a daunting conversation. When Groups first rolled out they had basically 0 administration capabilities. Over the past year things have improved to the point that I thought it would be good to put together some broad information about where and what you can manage with Office 365 Groups.

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